[xubuntu-users] Focuswrite?

[James Freer]

On 11/14/13, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 07:32 PM, James Freer wrote:
>> On 11/14/13, Gerard <gerry.gazules at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does anyone have a good word to say for Focuswrite?
>>> G.
>>
>> I tried it once but found it rather limited. If you want a simple word
>> processor you could try Ted rtf editor. But it doesn't import into
>> LO-writer or Abiword so well. They seem to have sorted out Abiword now
>> so the new stable release isn't far away. Ver 2.9.2 was a development
>> version when debian based distros had a missing dependency (as i
>> understand it). I used gedit and then copied into google docs for
>> formatting.
>>
>> For most word processing I preferred Abiword as it was a little more
>> lightweight than LO-writer.
>
> Abiword is excellent, and includes 99% of the stuff you use 99% of the
> time. Most people only use about 5% of the facilities bloatware like
> Word and LO/OO provide.
> ///Peter

Peter - I used to find Abiword excellent but for debian distros for
the last year they have had to make do with the development version
2.9.2 due to some dependencies not being met in the stable ver 2.8.6.

Since then I have been using google docs as LO-writer ver 3.* has also
been buggy. The later ver 4 seems much better. I hope to go back to
Abiword when they have sorted out the problems. I've just installed
Xubuntu 13.10 and that has Abiword ver 3 so maybe ok now - I haven't
tested it fully yet.

james